Independence Corps

Chapter 44
Fan Zhong started the battle on the mountain first.

Before Jing Ze and the others arrived, Fan Zhong had already tied the devil's long guns to several hidden places, and holding two short guns in his own hand, he waited under a rock on the fifth lane.Izawa led a group of people to circle the road immediately, and saw the dead body of Oda Atomic, hanging high on the tree, and the white cloth belt with writing on it looked like a spirit-calling banner, fluttering in the wind.Izawa yelled loudly, cutting off several small trees with the saber in his hand.

"Fan Mazi, I'm going to swallow you alive!" Izawa yelled hysterically, swung his sword, and the devil started to rush up the winding road like a desperado.

Fan Zhong was not in a hurry to shoot, and waited for the devil to get on the fifth lane before dodging out from behind the rocks.He didn't shoot at the devils in the front, that would be a waste of bullets.He rushed to the middle and hit the two pistols "Ba" and "Ba" three times in a row, and six devils were killed.The corpse knocked down several devils, and the little devils panicked, stomping and stomping, and the formation became chaotic.It's a mess, Fan Zhong stuck the pistol in his waist, he knew that his son didn't have much bullets, so it was not as practical as a long gun.Mao Yao ran to the first gun, and shot fiercely at the fourth lane. The devils screamed "Wow", and several more rolled down the mountain.The devil in front left the winding road, climbed up the hillside, and shot in all directions, but the bullets were blocked by dense bushes.When the devil looked around for Fan Zhong's shadow, Fan Zhong had already jumped in front of the third gun, aiming at the devil who had just turned on the winding road and fired again.Several guns were fired one after another, and the devils on the winding road turned into headless flies, buzzing, but they couldn't find their attackers.Fan Zhong thought to himself, it would be great if there were a few hand grenades, throwing them at the middle of the devils, even blowing up and scaring them, would surely kill a large number of devils.

At first, Jing Ze thought that he had been ambushed by Shen Mengzi, so he hurriedly hid behind the guards, almost stepped on the ground in his haste, and rolled down the cliff.It took a long time for Jing Ze to realize that it was not Shen Mengzi who attacked him, but Fan Mazi, the heavy smoker.

In one fell swoop, Izawa said, "Let me go up, there is only one person on the mountain, and I will skin him alive!"

Hearing that there was only one person, the flustered devil regained his composure, clinging to the cliff, and walked forward.Fan Zhong fought for a while to change places, and his agile body shuttled through the bushes, making the devil confused where he was, but the mountainside was full of gunshots all the time.The devil spent a lot of effort, but still failed to kill the smoker, but let Fan Zhong see the opportunity, and killed many more.

The bullets in several long guns were quickly emptied, Fan Zhong didn't dare to fight violently, he had to lure the devils to the dangerous opening, where there was a net waiting.Only then did Fan Zhong pull out his pistol, and ran towards the natural dangerous opening while shooting.Izawa became furious and ordered the team to pursue quickly.Once on the winding road, the mountain road suddenly widened and the field of vision widened a lot. Through the binoculars, Izawa could clearly see that the big smoker Fan Mazi was heading towards Tianxian Ridge, which pierced into the sky.

"Fan Mazi, I will tear your corpse into thousands of pieces!"

Lao Luan and the others had already ambushed in Tianxian Ridge, waiting for the devils to pounce on them.About two hours later, the vanguard of the devils arrived at Tianxiankou.The confident Guizibing was stunned by the sight in front of him, my God, where is the road?
The mountain road, which was relatively wide at first, suddenly turned a corner at the natural barrier and went into two stone peaks.That stone peak is just as if a ghost chiseled it, like a huge boulder split from the middle, it is so dangerous that people are afraid.In the middle of Shifeng, the rocks blown down by Lao Luan and the others were like fierce ghosts and beasts, extremely ferocious.The way of the devil is strictly blocked!

Before Jing Ze reached Shifeng, Lao Luan's gunshots rang out.All of a sudden, there was a loud gunshot from Tianxiankou, bullets flew like rain, and the howls of ghosts and wolves rang out.Holding his saber, the leader of the devil squad shouted desperately: "Fight back, fight back!" But the devils in front didn't have the confidence to fight back. They knew they had reached a dead end, and they ran away one after another, some jumped off the cliff, and some went into the cave. , Some simply drill hard into the middle of Shifeng. The brothers of the 72nd Regiment were condescending, and they could see every move of the devils. Machine guns, rifles, and grenades, one after another, beat the devils to call their parents and mothers, blood and blood flew all over the place.Izawa realized that he had made a big mistake, and there was no chance to retreat, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and command the team to disperse, and at the same time ordered the grenadiers to fight back on the mountain.

Although Lao Luan and the others were fully prepared, they still underestimated the strength of the Izawa United team.In order to walk this mountain path, Izawa threw away the light mountain cannon and the gravity cannon, but brought the grenades without landing.Although Shifeng was high, in order to ensure effective shooting, the place where Lao Luan and the others ambush was no more than 300 meters away from the bottom of the peak, which happened to be the effective range of grenades.After the devils in front fell to the ground, the devils behind immediately came to their senses. Amid Izawa's shouts, they set up grenade launchers one after another and rushed to the top of the mountain to fight back. Five minutes later, Lao Luan's firepower was suppressed, and the devils gradually gained the upper hand.Jing Ze was blocked at the back, and the guards around him shot at the retreating devils, forcing the devils to charge upwards.There are a few open spaces under the peak, just for the devil to hide. Under the fierce firepower of the grenade, the devil's machine gunner also climbed up the cliff and fired at the high altitude, and the two sides formed a stalemate for a while.

The battle lasted for nearly four hours. Although Lao Luan and the others had an advantage, this advantage was gradually replaced by fatigue during the long period of consumption.Relying on the large number of people, the devils attacked one after another. Lao Luan was afraid that the bullets would not be enough, so he ordered the brothers to use stones.Although Rolling Rock helped the brothers, the brothers were physically exhausted.What's more terrible, when the two sides were fighting in full swing, a group of enemies suddenly appeared on the southern peak, about 300 people.This devil did not know where it came from, and as soon as it came up, it seized the high ground on the south side, condescendingly shot at Lao Luan and the others frantically, and instead let Lao Luan and the others fall into a passive and beaten situation.After finally suppressing this group of devils, under the front stone peak, Izawa launched a new attack.

Taking advantage of Lao Luan and the others being bitten just now, Izawa quickly made adjustments, divided the three brigades into several small teams, avoided Shi Feng, drilled into the dense forests on both sides, and used the cover of shrubs and rocks to follow Lao Luan and the others. Guerrilla warfare started.

At this time, Shen Mengzi was leading the other three battalions to fight against Sasaki at Luanshigangzi.Ma'anpo has been lost. Although the 73rd Regiment of the National Army fought hard, it was outnumbered. The devils surrounded them from three sides, forming a powerful firepower circle. The head of the regiment, Zhu Daquan, died heroically when he broke through the siege. There was not one left in the 73rd Regiment. camp.

After the devils occupied Ma'anpo, Sasaki's contingent quickly turned their guns, and under the cover of more than a dozen tanks, rushed towards the chaotic stone hillock.The morale of the Japanese army was high. In order to inspire fighting spirit, Commander Miyata has offered rewards to his soldiers three times in a row.As soon as the Battle of Ma'anpo ended, Commander Miyata made another wish. As long as Liu Ji was captured, each battalion would reward ten flower girls for the enjoyment of the officers and soldiers.When the little devil heard that there was a girl named Hua, he played with his life even more. As soon as they fought, he gave Shen Mengzi a blow.

Dozens of devil's heavy artillery fired at once, and the dense shells suppressed the small mountain guns of the 72nd regiment. The machine gunners at the front of the position did not dare to leave the bunker rashly.Behind the tank, Okamoto's new infantry brigade rushed up like an ant colony without fear.

The brothers of the 72nd regiment did not show weakness. Facing the attack of the devils, the three battalions formed a triangular formation and stood in front of the tanks dedicated to fighting the devils. As soon as the firepower of the tanks was suppressed, the machine gunners on the two wings jumped out of the trenches and charged at the devils. Fierce strafing.The mud rolled on the rocky hillock, and the sound of killing shook the sky.Just as Shen Mengzi gritted their teeth and repelled the devil's first round of attack, there was a sudden ear-piercing bang in the sky, and Xiaomi Tang cried out, "Commander, the plane!"

Shen Mengzi looked up, and there were indeed several enemy planes flying in the sky.

"Seventh Battalion Commander, Seventh Battalion Commander, machine gun!" Shen Mengzi yelled while beating, his voice was quickly covered by the sound of shells.The Seventh Battalion had already prepared, and before the enemy plane flew overhead, the machine gunner had already fired bullets.

Miyata finally transferred the plane!
To say that this is also Miyata's biggest concern, when he was still in Gucheng, he asked the Supreme Commander to send plane reinforcements.The Supreme Commander spoke nicely and promised to send a plane over as soon as he got the rice grain.Unexpectedly, he has been fighting here for a long time, and there is still no sound in the sky, so Miyata has doubts in his heart.After repeated questioning, I learned that the other main force of the Japanese army fought against the 18th Army of the Communist Party in the Qijiashan area on the right bank of the Baishui River. not on.Miyata was extremely dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it. After all, what he was facing was not a regular army. As far as the supreme commander was concerned, Tu Lanlong's team could not be compared with the 18th Army.

Hearing the roar of the plane, Commander Miyata smiled.The plane arrived for reinforcements at this time, proving that the battle between the Imperial Army and the 18th Army had come to an end. Although he had not received the latest news about the battle, he firmly believed that the Imperial Japanese Army had won.

"Victory must belong to the Emperor!" After Miyata finished speaking, he walked out of the tent, holding binoculars in his hand, and watched the battle ahead as if admiring it.

The Japanese bombers who had fought countless times on the land of China were not afraid of machine guns at all. The nine bombers were divided into three rows and dropped bombs on Luanshigangzi and Huanghuagang in turn with experience.Shen Mengzi scolded his grandma, grabbed the machine gun from the machine gunner, and fired at the oncoming enemy plane.The enemy plane seemed to intend to provoke him, and swooped towards him, Shen Mengzi was startled, the son of a bitch was so bold, just when he fired the second round of bullets, the enemy plane dropped three bombs, arrogantly far away.

The hillside at the front of the position was horribly bombed, and it was scorched everywhere. The tree trunks were on fire, the young trees were uprooted, and there was no green star on the ground.More than a dozen brothers were injured in the first round of bombing. Shen Mengzi and the others didn't even have time to carry the wounded. Someone was injured, and the people behind took advantage of the opportunity to fish the wounded into the trench and then went into the battle again.The enemy planes flew back and forth, bombed three times in a row, and finally dropped a few bombs on Liu Ji inhumanely, and walked away.

Liu Ji suddenly fell into chaos!

The stone bridge leading to Miliang City was packed to the brim, and people fled to the city one after another, helping the old and the young. Fan Ziyi, head of the 182nd Regiment, blocked Liu Ji's people from crossing the bridge at first, but when the enemy planes bombed him, he knew that Liu Ji could not be kept, so he ordered the brothers guarding the bridge to put away their guns and retreat to Songjiayuan.

Fan Ziyi was also furious. When Gangben launched an attack for the second time, he asked Hua Tianming for instructions, trying to pull the team to Huanghuagang.Hua Tianming stopped him sharply, which made Fan Ziyi very unhappy.

"The devils have become so arrogant, and they are still not allowed to shoot. What's the use of carrying this gun!" Fan Ziyi was full of complaints.Ma'anpo fell, and Zhu Daquan died for the country, which deeply stimulated Fan Ziyi.He took off his military cap, bowed his head in the direction of Ma'anpo and stood silently for 3 minutes, then shook his general cap, and shouted at his brothers: "Listen to me, if no one else fights this battle, I will fight it!"

Fan Ziyi almost led his troops to Huanghuagang. If Tu Lanlong hadn't sent Teng Yunfei to stop him in time, he would have been killing the little devil this time.Although Teng Yunfei was the one who blocked him, he did not block Fan Ziyi's heart. After the enemy plane flew away arrogantly, Fan Ziyi couldn't hold back anymore.

"Bring enough machine guns and artillery, and set off in half an hour!"

Fan Ziyi decided to take the risk, his blood nature did not allow him to stand on the sidelines.

It wasn't just Fan Ziyi, but within the 11th Army, the sound of battle rang out.First, Gu Shanyi, the old head of the group, left Meiyuan angrily after failing to challenge the battle.Before leaving, he left Tu Lanlong with a heavy sentence: "The old commander is so blind that he accepts such a villain as you!"

Then came the 49th Brigade and the 51st Brigade. Even Zuo Xiangwei, the commander of the Artillery Brigade, came to Meiyuan impatiently and asked to fight.

Tu Lanlong blocked them back one by one, he was afraid that more and more people would ask for a fight, so he simply ordered his adjutant Teng Yunfei to block the plum garden, and no one could enter the plum garden without his summons.

Teng Yunfei conveyed the order downward with a sad mood.

Soon, news came that the Sixth Division, under the leadership of the deputy teachers, Lao Huai and Zhang Guozhen, drove towards Fengqiao overnight.Instead of taking the stone bridge, they drove directly from Fengqiao to Niangniang Mountain, and then crossed Hongshuigou.Teng Yunfei thought again and again, and reported the news to Tu Lanlong.Tu Lanlong pondered for a long time, picked up the phone, and called Huang Shaoyong.

"You are the acting teacher, everything over there is up to you to decide, if there is a problem in the future, you explain to the chief!"

Huang Shaoyong didn't say anything. After a long time after answering the phone, he picked up the phone again and called the Minister's Department.The minister's department actually told him clearly that if the Japanese did not harass Miliang City, the 11th Army would not be allowed to shoot!Only then did Huang Shaoyong understand that Chief Yan, who was clamoring for a war of resistance, actually had no interest in fighting Japan at all. He was just thinking about how to control the 11th Army into his own hands.

Including Generalissimo Jiang, their eyes were fixed on the territory of Miliangshan, not on the Japanese!Let Miyata pass through the rice grain mountain smoothly, leave the golden mountain of rice grain intact to them, and keep the 11th Army of Commander Tu Lao in his hands without losing any soldiers and generals, this is what they want.

Huang Shaoyong suddenly felt more sympathy for Tu Lanlong.

Tu Lanlong can't be blamed for Meiyuan not sending troops.But how did he tell Lao Huai and Zhang Guozhen about these things?
While Huang Shaoyong was in a daze, Zhang Guozhen and Lao Huai had brought two brigades to the Fengqiao. Su Changmao, the commander of the third battalion who was in charge of guarding the Fengqiao, had just received a call from Chief Staff Chi of the headquarters, asking him to guard Fengqiao strictly. Do not let a single soldier pass.When Laohuai and the others came to the bridge, they saw Su Changmao standing there holding a gun. Laohuai shouted: "Get out of the way!"

Su Changmao chuckled: "I can't get out of the way, the headquarters has an order that no one is allowed to cross the bridge tonight."

"What if I have to pass?" Lao Huai's face was covered with a murderous look, but Su Changmao didn't notice it.

"It's up to the headquarters to speak. Without the order from the headquarters, no one will be able to step on the Fengqiao." Su Changmao said that he was a confidant of the young commander, and he was somewhat disrespectful to Lao Huai in his words.

Zhang Guozhen stepped forward, looked Su Changmao up and down for a while, and asked, "Are you the third battalion commander Su Changmao?"

Su Changmao nodded.

"Do you know me?" Zhang Guozhen looked a little strange.

"Hey, who doesn't Brigadier Zhang know? Brigadier Zhang is joking with me. Everyone in Sanying knows your tuba."

"Then let it go?"

"I can't let it go. I was ordered by the Commander-in-Chief to guard Fengqiao. If I let people pass without authorization, the battalion commander is negligent."

"You really won't let me?"

"No!"

Before the word "Let" landed, a hole had been opened in the head of the third battalion commander Su Changmao.Zhang Guozhen fired this shot really fast, he pulled the gun to shoot, but in a blink of an eye, everyone was still watching how he dealt with Su Changmao, and he had put the gun in the holster.

Su Changmao leaned back and fell heavily to the ground.

There was a commotion among the crowd, and the brothers from the third battalion on the bridge were stunned by the sudden killing. When they realized that they were about to raise their guns, the guns in their hands had already been snatched by Zhang Guozhen's guards.

"You shouldn't kill him." After crossing Fengqiao, Lao Huai said to Zhang Guozhen.Lao Huai thinks that Zhang Guozhen has gone too far, no matter what, Su Changmao is still performing military affairs, and a lesson is enough.

"Anyone who stops me will die!" Zhang Guozhen said angrily, and walked forward quickly.Lao Huai stood in a daze for a moment, then heaved a sigh.He knew that Zhang Guozhen was blocked, but at this moment, who wasn't blocked?
What was even more difficult was Tu Lanlong.

Plum Garden is blocked, no one can get in on both sides of No. 2 Road and No. 1 Road, but the phone keeps calling.Every time the phone rang, it was torture for him. He was afraid of hearing that voice now, but he couldn't stop listening.

In fact, his heart has been gripped by the battle ahead, very tightly, and the continuous sound of guns and guns is about to suffocate him.He felt that there were black muzzles all around him, all aimed at him, he wanted to escape, really wanted to.

He wants to escape to Datong and continue to be the commander of his 24th division.He wanted to flee to Taiyuan, to his wife and daughter.But he couldn't escape, he was bound by several ropes and couldn't break free.The thickest one actually came from himself.

What is he afraid of?Wife and daughter, father-in-law?It seems to be, it seems not to be.Afraid of the Chairman, or Chief Yan?

What does he hate?Tan Weiming, Chi Shaotian, those people who were able to compete with their adoptive father, and later competed with him for the position of commander?Or is it the person related to the death of the adoptive father in the legend?

What is he hiding from?Miyata, Okamoto, or himself?
The phone rang again, and just as Tu Lanlong picked it up, Zhuang Guoxiong's voice sounded like he was urging his life: "The headquarters, I'm Zhuang Guoxiong, the devils have dispatched planes, and the 12th Division can't stand it anymore. We want guns, Pao, I beg of you, please give me reinforcements. Old Tan has been trapped by the enemy, his life and death are unknown, and the devil's bomb is about to blow up Huanghuagang."

Tu Lanlong hung up the phone with a snap.

Zhuang Guoxiong called almost every 10 minutes. Tu Lanlong was afraid to hear his voice, but also longed to hear his voice.What happened to me, bewitched, possessed?Strange, hearing that Tan Weiming was trapped, how could there be a feeling of happiness and enmity?

The phone was quiet for less than 3 minutes, then it rang again, this time Tu Lanlong didn't answer, he thought it must be Zhuang Guoxiong, he was afraid that he would be shaken.In fact, since Zhuang Guoxiong made the first rescue call, his wavering heart became active. For a moment, he almost gave an order, but he held back decisively afterwards.

He is waiting.He couldn't tell what he was waiting for, and he didn't want to.Maybe, who is waiting, the Chairman, Yan Zhang, including Miyata, are all waiting.Then wait.

The phone yelled stubbornly, and Tu Lanlong finally couldn't bear it any longer. He walked to the table and picked up the receiver. Unexpectedly, the voice of Chief Minister Sun came from the phone: "Is it Lanlong, I have some unfortunate news for you , Tiao Tiao and Zhenzhen have all fallen into the hands of Little Japan, and are currently being escorted to Miliang Mountain."

Tu Lanlong's eyes darkened and he almost fell down.

When Fan Zhong woke up, it was already dawn.

(End of this chapter)